Games released on October 5
Nine games that still hold up, from Maniac Mansion in 1987 to Assassin's Creed Odyssey in 2018
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Maniac Mansion 1987
Turned 39 this year Commodore 64
Dave Miller enters the Edison mansion to rescue Sandy from a mad scientist under a sentient meteor's control, with two friends picked from six. Each friend has abilities of their own, so the puzzles change with the party.
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Skies of Arcadia 2000
Turned 26 this year Dreamcast
Vyse, a young air pirate, flies an airship across a sky of floating islands, charting it as he goes, against an empire reviving ancient weapons. It was one of the inspirations for Psychonauts.
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NBA 2K11 2010
Turned 16 this year Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360
A basketball simulation built around Michael Jordan, with a Jordan Challenge of ten achievements from his career that then opens him up to the other modes.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2010
Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Gabriel Belmont hunts the Lords of Shadow to bring his wife back to life, in a Castlevania that starts over in medieval Southern Europe with a chain whip called the Combat Cross.
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West 2010
Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Monkey has to get a girl named Trip home across a world ruined 150 years after a global war, in a loose take on the Chinese novel Journey to the West.
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Pushmo 2011
Turned 15 this year Nintendo 3DS
A puzzle game for the 3DS in which Mallo, a round red creature in a sumo outfit, pulls and pushes blocks to climb giant structures and rescue the children trapped on them.
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A Hat in Time 2017
Turned 9 this year
Hat Kid, an alien girl, tries to get home by recovering her lost Time Pieces, across open levels that can be explored with no time limit.
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2018
Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Alexios or Kassandra, a Greek mercenary, fights for Athens or Sparta during the Peloponnesian War while searching for family and opposing the Cult of Kosmos, toward one of several endings.
